Description
The legend of Prince Hamlet from Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum inspired Shakespeare's tragedy and numerous lost 18th-century Italian operas. Musicologist Paolo Vittorio Montanari reconstructed this original project from fragments in Italian libraries. Unpublished music by Scarlatti, Gasparini, Carcani, and Handel focuses on female characters: romantic Veremonda (Ophelia) and Gerilda (Gertrude), torn between love for her son and passion for her unfaithful husband. Soprano Roberta Mameli performs expressive, brilliant, and charming arias portraying these figures. Discover these musical gems in the fascinating, ambiguous world of Hamlet amid rediscovered Baroque Italy.
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